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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on Today, 08:02

I picked up this gateway yesterday. It's a pentium 75, 28MB ram. From a collector standpoint it came with the original monitor, keyboard, software+drivers CDs and disks and instructions and other literature that I guess came with it originally. It seems the og OS was windows 95 but the previous …

Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on Today, 07:54

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My biggest pet peeve with screen resolution in the computer realm is that EVERYTHING is now 16:9 ratio. That's fine for movies, but for me it's very bad for computer stuff. I grew up on 4:3 from the '70s - the 2000s. Yes i'd like a choice, 'widescreen' works well enough for a lot of work and games …

Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 09:23

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I can't do multi monitor so the best option for me actually is 4K. A single 3840x2160 monitor is literally 4 1920x1080 screens rolled into one. I have more than enough screen real-estate to keep a eye on my Twitch chat, OBS, the game I'm playing and whatever MIDI system I need to have in use. …

Re: Xbox 360 Marketplace closing

Posted on 2024-05-09, 08:33

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sounds like they announced it in good time anyway, i guess there will be ways to back up downloads. to be honest, much as some of the games are good whenever i see a newer console being used it seems to require updates constantly. that put me off ever buying one. i suppose at some future point the …

Re: Do you think prices will stay high?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 08:29

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Hah, I've challenged ppl before on the use of words like "OBO" "Mint" etc, and got back snotty replies like "It's just what you say on a for sale listing, it doesn't really mean much, don't you know anything?" like I'm the dumbass. edit: You even catch some crazy shit like "Light wear and minor …

Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-08, 07:37

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it isn't. I'll still happily watch stuff on a standard def TV. Not that I watch much on the TV anymore. most my viewing is youtube videos, sometimes old TV shows that look like VHS quality and I'm fine with that. Computer side of things I'll just go with whatever the native resolution is. Aspect …

Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-08, 07:32

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Same goes for phone screens: pushing extra pixels takes a faster gpu and goes at the cost of battery power. And battery reliability is the number one criterium for a mobile device to me. Also don't like all the ridiculous ai upscaling of movies for 4k tvs, to produce an image that never existed, …

Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 08:04

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i'm fine with a DVD, sure bluray looks better but DVD is fine by me Hi there! To me, it depends on type of film, also. A hand draw animation can be scaled better, because of outlines etc. These films also don't depend on interlacing so much. There's no movement in-between, as there is with a real …

Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 07:57

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Having adequate size and resolution is most important for productivity applications, where one is looking over schematics, charts, text, photos, etc. Otherwise, it's not that important because no amount of resolution makes up for the other problems that exist in video content, broadly. Low …

Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 07:54

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For computer games, only use CRT, before quake 3 320x200 is fine, quake 3 and higher 640x480 looks good, but i dont care much, for example im playing alice madness return at 320x240 and is fine for me Movies it depent content, for example, i was watching Sledge Hammer and 240p is fine to enjoy, but …

Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 07:51

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For content: if it's not pre-rendered then on LCD/OLED anything that matches the screen's native resolution. If it's pre-rendered, it's a matter of distance and type of content. On a TV I'm mostly fine with SD on my 40"@4K watching from 2.5 meters away or my 27"@1440p monitor watching from 1 meter …

Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 07:47

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A lot of this 4k and 8k stuff is more of a marketing ploy, as it won't be noticable unless you have a big enough TV and are at the right viewing distance. It's also a bit like digital cameras and megapixels, as consumers are impressed by big numbers. However, the resolution is only one part of the …

How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-06, 16:27

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How important is screen resolution to you? Not just in games but in tv and movies too? and how about screen size? i thought about this recently when talking with someone young about 4k and 8k on very large screens, an enthusiast for tvs the size of a home cinema i realised i dont really care that …

Re: What would you do different?

Posted on 2024-05-06, 16:06

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schmatzler wrote on 2024-05-03, 14:28: My next computer was a bare motherboard sitting on a cardboard box for a while. i would learn to appreciate the cardboard box 'case' earlier 😀

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